{"id":229118,"date":"2026-01-16T01:26:19","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/neuroscientists-link-a-common-inflammatory-molecule-to-the-dopaminergic-mechanisms-of-addiction"},"modified":"2026-01-16T01:26:19","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:26:19","slug":"neuroscientists-link-a-common-inflammatory-molecule-to-the-dopaminergic-mechanisms-of-addiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/neuroscientists-link-a-common-inflammatory-molecule-to-the-dopaminergic-mechanisms-of-addiction","title":{"rendered":"Neuroscientists link a common inflammatory molecule to the dopaminergic mechanisms of addiction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/neuroscientists-link-a-common-inflammatory-molecule-to-the-dopaminergic-mechanisms-of-addiction.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Treatments for autoimmune disorders might offer hope for methamphetamine addiction. Research published in Science Signaling indicates that blocking a specific immune protein dampens the drug\u2019s effect on the brain\u2019s reward centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Treatments for autoimmune disorders might offer hope for methamphetamine addiction. Research published in Science Signaling indicates that blocking a specific immune protein dampens the drug\u2019s effect on the brain\u2019s reward centers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}